Bingham Bulletin | 1938-05-13 | Page 4 | Railroads Boost Utah Business

RAILROADS BOOST UTAH BUSINESS Utah benefited substantially from the expenditures of the railroads in 1937 for materials, supplies, fuel.new equipment equip-ment and payrolls, it is revealed in a special study which has just been completed by the Bureau of Railway Economics Econom-ics of the Association of American Railroads. Railway purchases in Utah last year totaled $2,435,626, , the report shows. Of this sum, $2,433,625 was spent for ' materials, supplies and fuel, while $2,001 went for new equipment (not including that built in company shops). 1 These purchases were made in 15 town and cities lbcatoi in eight of the 29 counties of the state. Wages paid to railway employes in Utah during 193. amounted to $13,790,756. i The review discloses that , for the nation as a whole, the railroads last year paid $1,133,361,408 for the more than 70,000 different items which they use. Materials, supplies and fuel cost $966,383,000, and expenditures for all new equipment (except that constructed in railway shops) total- ', ed $166,978,408. More than 12,000 towns and cities located L in 2,638 of the 3,072 counties of the United States derived direct benefits from this large volume of railroad buying. In 1937, the country's rail carriers also distributed $1,-983,990,485 $1,-983,990,485 in wages to their employes, - the report says.